Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect to ascending, strigulose.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

4–10(–13) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 0.5–4.5 mm;

leaflets 13–21, blades linear to linear-filiform, (5–)7–15(–17) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or adaxially glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

becoming loosely (3–)4–14(–18)-flowered;

axis 1–8.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–15(–22) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

ascending, 1.2–3.5 mm.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

12.5–15.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, obliquely cuneate, 4–6.7 mm, silky-villous, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 3.2–5.8 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla white, creamy white, or purplish, banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–11 mm, apex bluntly deltate or triangular, often slightly beaklike.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

pale green, sometimes also red-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, obliquely obovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–48 × 5–16(–22) mm, papery-membranous, translucent, apex differentiated into broad, low-deltoid beak, glabrous;

stipe (5–)8–12 mm.

27–40(–46).

10–20.